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violin plots should not exist
Angela Collier
Physicist Angela Collier rants for 42 minutes about why violin plots are a poor way to show data, citing papers on violin and bean plots. It is part lecture on how to read distributions and part opinionated critique.
HN links it in data-visualization threads as an entertaining case against violin plots.
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